Name that Landform
Lungs of the Earth
What is the Amazon?
What two tribes live on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming?
Arapaho and Shoshone
Give an example of Relative Location.
Various Answers
Number of time zones that are in Russia
What is 11?
French-speaking province of Canada
What is Quebec?
Important mountain range in the western United States
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The most dominant industry in the United States
What are service industries?
Give an example of one physical characteristic and one human characteristic.
Physical-Mountains, Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, Animal Life, Vegetation, etc
Human-Population, language, buildings, religion, political system
Name two metropolitan areas west of the Mississippi.
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, LA, Denver, Austin, Houston, Dallas/Ft.Worth, Phoenix, Las Vegas, etc.
What is the process of obtaining potable water from the ocean called?
Desalination
Body of water the US shares with Mexico
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
What is the Dust Bowl?
The severe drought that affected the Southern Great Plains in the 30s and 40s.
Relationships between people in different places are shaped by the constant movement of people, ideas, and materials is an example of which theme of geography?
Movement
Name two of the Great Lakes.
Erie, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Superior
What is the mountain chain that along the East Coast from Georgia to Maine?
Appalachians
These mountain ranges provide a natural border for France
What are the Pyrennes and Alps?
Name 10 states East of the Mississippi.
Various
Putting on sunscreen is an example of which concept of Human-Environment Interaction?
Adapt
Name a borough of New York City.
The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island
This climate tends to be on the west coast of countries
What is Marine Climate?
What is the English Channel?
What is an economic issue with aging populations in the United States?
That increases the costs for Medicare, a government-run program that pays the health care costs of the elderly.
What is a basic unit of geographic study that shares several distinct characteristics?
Region
Name all the provinces and territories of Canada
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.
The three territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut,
Commercial fisheries use fish __________________ to cultivate and breed fish to repopulate
What are hatcheries?